The kid is a mouth breather anyway..."University of Ohio State" is a classic from the Department of Redundancy Department. Hearing that from his mouth makes me think we're gonna be better off without him. He's probably too "slow" to run R2's offense and that's why he chose to go to UoOS instead of "Michigan University"! What a dumbass...

i swear, yost, i'll just ignore him after this (the way you should ignore all stalkers) but:

"surrounded in columbus' continued rants against Pryor are pathetic. mouth breather."

wtf? seriously. i make the same point that half the sportswriters and bloggers in america make- recruits can be talented but high school stats are meaningless- use Drew Henson as example (numerous times) and the f'ng troll suckeye accuses ME as the one ranting??

and mouthbreather? i guess this is what happens when kids get off the bus and don't have parental supervision when they get online.

University of Ohio State? UOSTHE university of Ohio State? TUOSUniversity of THE Ohio State? UTOSOhio State University? OSUTHE Ohio State University ? tOSUState university of Ohio? SUOOState university of the Ohio State? SUOSState University of the Ohio State University? ...

tried my best by i just don't have TP's talents in making up names for lousy schools.

on a tangential note, both tom lemming and tom luginbill have both been saying (quietly) very positive things about the likelihood of Threet picking up some shaun kingesque version of the spread by september. R2 will likely have to "dumb down" some of the reads on the running side, but the offense might come along nicely by fall. considering Threet was a 4-5 star recruit two years ago & has 4 years of eligibility left, it may not be as bleak as we think (though, pessimism is the hall mark of any good michigan fan).

i just love how all the UM fans were so excited to let Mallett walk away, cause RRod was bringing Pryor with him. Now that Pryor is going to OSU, it's no big deal. please! RRod got hired cause he convinced Bill Martin that he could bring Pryor in tow and beat OSU. Now with your QB situation, you set yourself back another 5 years.

And, going back to surrounded's list, which player is Pryor most closely referenced to as.....that's right Vince Young.

so make fun of him pronouncing OSU wrong all you want, cause in the end i know it kills you that he is a buckeye and not a wolverine.

here's a great drill for UM fans: ask yourself if you would trade your last 5 years of success for OSU's....now ask yourself if you would trade the next 5 years. It's the same answer....really.

no, wtrk, i don't think so. the question was wouldn't michigan fans want to have tosu's record, and i meant that i don't think there is any sports record you could have for which any of us would trade. i don't know a single michigan alum who would trade places to be a tosu alum over any sports record.

now, i suppose if you wanted to expand the concept beyond sports record, then yeah, that was incorrect. i have a price (cash) i suppose. probably something akin to the cost of Pryor's corvette.

but, some of the posts i've read in regards to pryor on mgoblog, rivals, etc. are just shocking. the poor taste being displayed makes me sick to my stomach, not to mention those comments jeering the kid with racial undertones.

Hmmm. I'm on record as thinking Prior might be a thug, so therefor we win cause he is a buckeye.Kristy might have graduated cum loudly but it wasn't with a buckeye. SIC don't fight with the PILLOW BITERS. Ohh and I'm not an alum but have two sisters that were tosu grads. It would take a lot more cash then his vette to get me. GO BLUE!

Apparently Woodyhayes didn't see the quotation marks, or just didn't get the bit of fun humor poked at the new recruit. If Pryor was coming to UM and spoke that "eloquently"about us, I'd poke fun.Whetstone- great uses for the new TUTOSU!!Isn't It funny how all of a sudden there are so many new posters from OH, all ready to jump on anyone trying to have a bit of fun with the new QB, TP?! Nicknames-Charmin, Cottonelle.... Just kidding. It is all in fun-at least from me.WV? WAZQSWYE. "why did you rob that bank?" "wazqswye needed some beer money dude!!!"

Did the NCAA just institute a "You almost got the #1 recruit in the nation who may or may not be any good and sounds like he's as sharp as marbles so you can't recruit another QB for 5 years" rule? If not then I'm really confused. And for the record (once again) I've always been in the Shepard camp, because the kid actually sounds like he could carry on an intelligent conversation (amongst other reasons) and not like your typical Buckeye.

"ask yourself if you would trade your last 5 years of success for OSU's....now ask yourself if you would trade the next 5 years. It's the same answer....really.

You're correct, the answer is the same: NO. As a Buckeye fan I'd have had to live through the 2-10-1 era before that. It would also mean that while my team would have owned our most hated rival for the past 5 years, I would've been a fan of a team that has won ONLY 4 of 10 big games which it or its opponent entered undefeated in the past 15 years. Two were obviously in the same season as you won a NC in '02, so in 8 other seasons you've ended up disappointed. Because of that I can honestly say I wouldn't trade the last five years because it would include getting my hopes up and be disappointed again and again and again. But then, you should be getting used to that.

As for the next 5 years, name your wager tough guy. If we lose 5 in a row I'll meet it.

Actually it was the press who gave the "UofOS" misquote a start...apparently you guys have no comment on Pryor mentioning DickRod "giving him lines" to the very end of the recruitment process....evidently no one thinks handing out cocaine as an inducement is a big deal. nah

So "university at Ohio State" is better than "University of Ohio State"? I'm pretty sure they're both equally amusing, and that's really all that matters.

Well, that and the crazy day of wall-to-wall basketball coming up so very soon. But I can watch basketball and laugh at University of State at Ohio recruits at the same time. (Though I guess University of State at the Ohio would make it sound more appropriately Miss Teen South Carolina-ish.)

if your idea of success for the next 5 years is going 1-4, then you have already hit rock bottom.

I'm not asking you to trade schools....just team success over the last 5 and next 5. you can still keep your general studies degree from UM. You still play your games in the Big House. Just the football teams success.

And having sat through the last 2 NC games. i would still rather be there than lose to UM any day of the week.

So do you make the trade....just the success. of course you do. And you know the next 5 years aren't going to be pretty either.

Also, I do realize we had a very tough time in the 90's with UM....thus i would trade our cumulative success, as the half title you won in 97 is greater than the 0 titles we won in that same time period. But i'm also more concerned with this decade and next, than last.

Things will obviously change. runs happen, and we are on ours. but for those of you that think this is the end of OSU's run, well yesterday just reinforced that it is absolutely not the case.

One more thing, for those bashing OSU for losing in 2 out of 3 NC title games we've played in:

We have actually won one. We were embarrassed in one after feeling like it should've been handed to us. Last year, we got there when NOBODY was expecting us to even win the Big Ten. We overachieved and lost to a better team. This is our year, and we will be hungry to get there again, and take care of business.

And nothing is as embarrassing as what UM did against App State. Nothing. You made the cover of SI for the most embarrassing loss ever.

now, this is a team that returns a QB that won 11 games in his first year as a starter. they also have Henton as the back up, who himself was a fairly highly touted non pro style prospect coming out of high school.

if michigan fans are displaying sour grapes, tuos fans are behaving like drunken sailors w/ their first liberty in 6 months. and reading the dispatch doesn't give you the full depth of the mania. the radio talk shows are literally fixated on how many heismans and how many mncs they're going to win. i haven't heard this much hype since... justin zwick.

and wtrck- as great as Young was? no Heismans (not even a candidate until his senior year) and one MNC. now, i think that's great but, that's not exactly "heisman after heisman after heisman", is it? at this point, if Pryor has a career identical to Young's tuos fans will actually be disappointed.

I wonder if Maurice Clarrett (Buckeye wunderkind emeritus) has been contacted to offer mentoring services - like don't get caught with an AK-47 and lint brush in your ride when you're on the way over to knock off the star witness in the upcoming case against you.

You know watching that debacle of a press conference yesterday what stuck out to me and what got under my skin was Pryor's "I feel so bad for them" stuff. Like he was a billion dollar grant that was dangling over U of M and then at the last minute yanked away and given to Tosu or TuTosu. You weren't doing Michigan any favors. Michigan WILL survive. Contrary to what those to our south think.

Michigan Friends, I know you may be a little bummed but there really is no reason to be. What 2 QB's have won the last two NC's? TP does not guarantee a NC. I thought TP going to Michigan was a great fit because of all the changes at Michigan. Now it's time to move on. This next year will be a tough one, but your new coach is going to bring success with a more exciting offense and strong defense. Thanks for not taking Coach Miles away, we love in down on the Bayou. Good luck to you guys next year.

SiC,it's a slow news day: the games haven't started yet (and OSU isn't in the tournament anyways), so they don't really have other things to talk about (besides OSU football). Plus spring ball starts next week for us.

As far as Pryor goes: I don't see this guy making a huge difference until his 3rd year, and with his track record i'm not sure he'll be there in 3 years. What makes a lot of osu fans happy is the fact that his decision not only made osu better, it made UM worse (in their perception).

You can't be a reasonable college fooball fan and say that UM is worse of without Pryor, especially since RR's system is so "tailor-made" for a mobile quarterback. Just my 2 cents.

Joshua,a former Lions' great Spielman is on their 4 pm show. When you look up "Homer" in a dictionary there's Spielman's picture right there, next to the definition. Chris will talk OSU football year around to anyone who'll listen, when he can't find someone to listen to him he'll talk osu football to a brick wall.

Can you imagine, this guy almost went to UM to play football, instead of OSU?

Wing,Wasn't aware Spielman ran the 4 o'clock show but I LOVE that guy. Probably the only former Buck I'm actually a fan of. The rest range from "meh" to "I hope the get bit by a rabid squirrel and fall down a well", but Spielman's awesome. This should be huge on the unintentional comedy scale.

Josh,you may have a very different opinion of Speilman after you hear his local radio show. like Herbstriet (who is also on @ 4), he has two different personnas: one for ESPN and one for the Columbus market.

Wgrg,did you see today's Dispatch? headline: "when can he start?"? as for yesterday's radio chatter? yesterday the cavs were playing the pistons, the CBJ's the redwings, MLB spring training @ full tilt, tous just finished up its first NIT game, march madness starting today, and what did they talk about for 4 hours? yup. Pryor.

which is one of the really big differences between the two schools. if Pryor had picked Michigan, yesterday's radio talk shows would have focused on the cavs playing the pistons, the CBJ's playing the redwings, the Tiger's spring training, march madness, and Pryor. the New or the Freep's headlines would have been about one of the pro games. Pryor signing would be front page, but not necessarily above the fold.

michigan fans would have been happy, but the entire world wouldn't have stopped to talk about it.

Wow. I am all for freedom of speech and democracy, but Jim Carty and those douchebags at the AAN have really pushed my buttons. Yeah yeah it's a non-story and all, but what is annoying is that other papers are picking up the "report," even if they are the Orlando Sentinel and The Daily Daytoner. The point is, say it enough and it becomes fact. As a Michigan alumnus and fan, that is one thing that I shouldn't have to defend against.

In retaliation, someone should write a 4-part report on all of the bullshit classes that Jim Carty took during his 6 years at Syracuse and get it published. Now there's an idea. It's just a minor, minuscule annoyance that I don't need.

Well, I don't know if saying this makes me an "arrogant hypocrite" or not, but I would never stoop to your level and talk trash on a Buckeye website. Not all people are as insecure or have as bad an inferiority complex as many of you Buckeye fans.

Just to set the record straight, I am an arrogant A-hole, not an arrogant hypocrite. Thanks for caring enough to come on a Michigan blog and whine though, I like hearing buckeye fans whine like 5 year old girls for no apparent reason.

Remind me why you're here again Crab Apple, didn't you just land the #1 recruit in the country? Is it because your Bball team was relegated to the NIT and the NCAAs were on today? Or is it residual regret over being a Buffalo Bills of college football fan?

And I have enjoyed our version of the Cooper years. But I think they're over- OOH! Maybe that's it! You're ticked b/c it took you guys 13 years before you decided to do something about it, and we've already rectified our problem after 5 years. You feel slow and incompetent. Kinda thought you'd be used to that, too. Either way I cannot WAIT to start dominating again. We're gonna have SEC speed soon, and we all know what happens when you try to play that. So say hi to Mr. University of Ohio state, and I hope you enjoyed our version of the Cooper years, because we're coming for you son. And this time our fan-base isn't gonna be quite as nice.

Josh, It also explains why we see so many tuos trolls here but so few M fans bother going to tuos sites: they really care about what we say about them, but we really don't care about what they say about us.

That's true SIC, for as much of my time as I spend discussing/reading/obsessing about M football I've never set foot on one of their sites. Interesting study in the culture of the two fan-bases. I found it extremely comical how many Buckeye fans were entirely flabbergasted when we treated them well while tailgating for the game this year. They just didn't know how to react, as if out civility was such a foreign concept.

Since you never broaden your horizons by not "setting foot" in other sites, that would explain your lack of knowledge regarding tOSU or its fans. I have treated all with respect and as a result, get the same in return. I'm not insecure about anything, but enjoy other viewpoints as well.

While I'm happy to have another prospective player come to Columbus, it doesn't affect my enjoyment of life or how I conduct my business or day to day activities.

I do find it amusing that some think we held on to John Cooper too long. While losing to you 10x in 13 years, he made it difficult to fire by beating everyone else. He was canned when Reggie Germany posted his Blutarsky-like GPA and the off-field problems grew. The one similarity between Cooper and RR is one that can't be disputed. Both are not connected thru previous involvement with the program. Outsiders, so to speak, to the rivalry. This was a source of concern in the Cooper years, and his lack of passion for the rivalry contributed to his undoing in the game. Bo understood the rivalry, and his teams played like it too. At least for the next few years, you and RR should benefit from lower expectations. I don't believe IMO that he is the answer and 'SEC speed' is lost when it goes north. Haven't you noticed how much slower our Florida recruits get when they come to our schools?

BTW SiC, Buffalo never won in 4 Super Bowls, we won the the 2002 season championship. And don't bring up the penalty, there are photos to prove it was the correct call. The only one who doesn't know it is Dan Fouts. You aren't Dan Fouts, are you?

I got that 1-4 idea, because one of the posters on this thread said they wanted to bet that UM does not go 0-5 over the next 5 years. so basically, if UM goes 1-4, he wins. if OSU went 1-4, i'd be in depression, but i guess that's good enough for UM fans.

and trust me, i don't forget the Cooper years. The big difference between the Cooper years, and what's happening now is simply during the Cooper years, we constantly had a more talented team who would lose a game to underdogs (i know, not in a few years like 97). Whereas now, we still have more talented teams (not just individual players) and we win. this is not a mental thing for UM like it was for us. this is superior talent beating inferior talent, and that gap widened yesterday.

and don't give me any BS about your guys that stayed for their senior year. You'll see how talented they are when Jake Long is the only top draft pick from that group. The same Jake Long who got eaten alive by Vernon Gholston.

Beanie > HartBoeckman > HennePryor > whatever retread RRod can convince to get the living crap kicked out of him next year

I am by all means not a big fan of Henne but at least Henne doesn't throw into quadruple coverage on every single down. Boechman is probably the hardest quarterback to watch on television... he is HORRIBLE. He would always get soooo lucky throwing into those coverages because his receivers would go get it for him or would just tip it... Knowing how Utosu coaches are though, they won't even play Pryor the same way they didn't play Troy Smith against Texas, and got raped.

What I find funny is that just about a month ago, your student section at a basketball game was chanting "We want Pryor" and now that you dont have him you resort to name calling a 18 year old. His off the field issues include him sticking up for a girlfriend at a park that was sexually touched by someone else, getting into a fight with someone for calling him the N-word. and you pathetic fans want to label this kid as a thug or problem child. Come on get a clue and get over it. Your all like a 4 year old that takes this ball and goes home cause you didnt get picked first.

Think about it maybe thats why Mallet left. Your program is in shambles. Deal with it.

All you Michigan fans are just jealous. So what if Pryor pronounced the university wrong. Is this all you got. This kid is only 18 and already got tons of pressure on him. He's going to be fun to watch running and throwing all over your asses. GO BUCKEYES!!!

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